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Re: Favorite book you have read...

We have a post for worst fiction book...so how about sharing your favorite book...of any type (fiction, non-fiction...whichever)?

I have a few and they have all changed how I viewed a situation or myself. (In no particular order)

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi (I bawled reading this one)

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." --Dr. Seuss

Re: Favorite book you have read...

Originally Posted by Kimberly

We have a post for worst fiction book...so how about sharing your favorite book...of any type (fiction, non-fiction...whichever)?

The Anne of Green Gables series has been my favorite since elementary school and I reread it ever five years or so. It was that book for me. The one I first fell in love with, the one that made me a bookworm.

I can also read Beloved by Toni Morrison over and over. And The Stand (King) is one of my absolute favorites. Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

The Prophet (Gibran) was given to me by a Big Sister while I was in foster care and its probably the closest thing I have to a Bible.

The Yellow Wallpaper was disturbing. Free online, short story from 1892 that completely exposes how absolutely horrific life could be for women in the care of well-meaning but sexist men/doctors. Go read it right now! It'll creep you out.

Dahlgren was the craziest book I've ever read but was strangely fascinating, unlike any other novel, so it's on the list, too.

Not a favorite and not bad, but The Kite Runner has to be the most depressing book I've ever read in my life and I think it may have seriously traumatized me.

Re: Favorite book you have read...

Put me on a desert island with the foxfire series and the old boy scout field guide, and those books and I'm good. A cave without a bear would be nice to.

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is my very favourite book. I like books by either author, but Good Omens is special.

There are many other books I would rank as "favourites" but they're all a step down from Good Omens in my book, although, the closest book that would compare to it is Mortal Coils by Eric Nylund, which is like a young adult version of American Gods that no one's heard of....

Re: Favorite book you have read...

Originally Posted by Kimberly

We have a post for worst fiction book...so how about sharing your favorite book...of any type (fiction, non-fiction...whichever)?

The entire Tolkien bibliography (Silmarillion, Hobbit, and Children of Hurin being my favorite three complete stories), From Hell is my favorite graphic novel, Fahrenheit 451 is my favorite dystopia, the Popol Vuh is my favorite myth cycle, and I'm working on finding my favorite book on gender and sexuality.

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